V-Day Taipei 2008 Beneficiaries
Established in 2000, Taiwan Women’s Link (TWL) is a non-profit advocacy organization that promotes women’s rights, especially in the area of women’s health.
TWL’s mission is to ensure that women have self-determination in decision-making.To help create a cultural and medical shift in how women’s bodies are perceived and addressed in a predominantly patriarchal society, TWL focuses on developing and promoting a critical analysis of health issues from a woman’s perspective. The organization has created a website (Taiwan Women’s Health) as a source of information for women.
In order to understand the status of women’s health in Taiwan and oversee the government’s health policies on women, TWL has founded the Taiwan Women’s Network. TWL believes that by working together, local women’s organizations can have a greater impact in this area.
TWL also devotes its efforts to encouraging female participation in politics in order to give women a greater voice in enacting laws and formulating policies that affect women in Taiwan.
Taipei Association for the Promotion of Women's Rights
TAPWR was established in 1994. The mandate of the association is to educate women, promote feminist ideology, and advocate gender equality in our society. We believe that, through this, a brand new image of Taiwan's female citizens can be established. The work of TAPWR includes the following:
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Women's History |
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In order to keep a historical record of women in Taiwan, TAPWR has published The Tales of Gramma, The Disappearing Grammas in Taiwan, and The Tales of Mamm. |
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Sexual Education |
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TAPWR has designed an Adolescent Sexual Education Seminar for high school students in the Taipei metropolitan area. We have already held almost 100 sessions that have reached over 100,000 young people. |
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Women's Health |
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TAPWR ran hotlines to help women and teenage girls understand and protect their rights concerning health-care and medical service. Continuous advocacy in women's health policy in Taiwan, including abortion rights, teen pregnancy, assisted reproductive technology, and lesbian health. |
Confronting the severe issue of commercial sexual prostitution in Asian tourism, several NGOs from different countries gathered in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 1990, and conducted the International Campaign to End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism (ECPAT) trying to protect children and to keep them away from commercial sexual exploitation. In 1997, ECPAT International reached out its hands to the every corner of the world, and renamed as End Children Prostitution, Child Pornography & Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT remains). Until now, ECPAT has a membership of 55 organizations in forty-seven countries.
ECPAT-Taiwan, combined with groups concerning the issues of women and children, joined ECPAT International in 1991. Registering on March 31st, 1994, ECPAT sees itself as a group dedicated to providing better services for children and women, to stand up against huge criminal networks, and to bring back children's smiles. To this end, ECPAT aims to end all forms of child prostitution, child pornography, and transnational sexual exploitation.
